Thank you for coming out to our Climate Shorts and Conversations event at the Urbane Arts Club during Climate Week! And if you missed the opportunity to attend, please find the short film synopses below and make sure to follow the work of these talented directors who shared their stories with us.
We welcome everyone to engage with these compiled resources and subscribe for future screening events.
Get Involved
- Donate to environmental justice organizations that have lost funding due to shifts in the government priorities.
- Find a support group if you are dealing with climate grief or anxiety.
- Attend Climate Film Festival events. While the main festival has concluded, CFF has programming throughout the year.
- Subscribe to Grist to stay up to date on what is happening with our environment, and donate to support independent environmental media if you can.
- Participate in upcoming events from our event sponsor Flatbush Food Co-op, which have included volunteer street tree care and electronic recycling.
Watch
- While most of the short films we screened aren’t currently distributed, we recommend checking out WaterBear and The Redford Center (when scheduled) to screen environmental films for FREE.
Read
Below are the books that our friends at Taylor & Co. Books brought to sell at the event. Remember to support your indie bookstore! (No commission is received from the following links.)
- Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future by Grist
- Here Comes the Sun by Bill McKibben
- The Bathysphere Book by Brad Fox
- Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth by Kate Schapira
- Extraction by Thea Riofrancos
- Is A River Alive? by Robert McFarlane
- The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Climate Shorts Screened
Hot Soda Directed by Nello DiGiandomenico
MEG protests her town hall’s approval to double the fracking that has been drilling the land for decades. In an effort to relax, she microdoses magic mushrooms and starts another day working at the family restaurant with her sick father, JACK. Their typical routine is interrupted when the CEO of the fracking company and his bodyguard arrive to dine. Believing that the fracking is poisoning the town and played a hand in her mother’s death, Meg refuses to serve the men. Jack, however, exists in deep denial, knowing they need the fracking company’s business to survive.
Trapped between her morals and the most meaningful relationship she has, Meg retreats to her car, where she takes a larger dose of mushrooms. Hallucinating her rebellious mother, she gets the idea to teach the frackers a lesson by slipping a massive dose into their spaghetti. However, things don’t go quite as planned…
The Human Fossil Directed by Rebecca Huang
“The Human Fossil” is an animated short film about alien archaeologist Soo’s mesmerizing encounter with the relics of human civilization. Initially perplexed by the ceramic artifacts she found, Soo performs amusing experiments on them, even riding on a toilet bowl. However, when Soo immerses broken bowls and mugs in water, she witnesses vivid flashbacks from their ancient owners thousands of years ago.
Kataw Directed by Alyssa Ashley Cordova Manugas
In a dystopian future where the Philippine archipelago is mostly submerged in seawater, a Mother-doctor, along with other experts comes up with an unconventional solution to save the future Filipino generation. An operation that to some is a medical farce. An extremely risky procedure that will turn children into the likeness of a Visayan mythical creature – the Kataw. Despite the risk, she is driven by dire circumstances to do it to her child.
As the operation day arrives, the Mother-doctor must make the hardest decision: will she take the risk to give her child a chance at survival or keep her child with her in the sinking world?
Everything is Fine Directed by Areeya Jitaree
A young girl unveils the truth about her surroundings and endeavors to transform her city.
There Will Come Soft Rains Directed by Elham Ehsas
Haunted by rising sea levels, a daughter digs up her father’s grave to move his body to higher ground.
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